NOTHING warms my heart more than Trespassing Slob Hunters.......

[FTG-05]

Ok another intellectual question for you:

Why would AL "hunters" drive 3 hours to hunt less than 6 acres in TN instead of the +181,000 acres of the Bankhead NF that is 5 miles from where they live, with AL's longer and more liberal deer hunting season, plus pay $305 for TN NR hunting license vs. $25 (I think) for an AL hunting license?

Any theories?

 

[2ndhalf]

Ok another intellectual question for you:

Why would AL "hunters" drive 3 hours to hunt less than 6 acres in TN instead of the +181,000 acres of the Bankhead NF that is 5 miles from where they live, with AL's longer and more liberal deer hunting season, plus pay $305 for TN NR hunting license vs. $25 (I think) for an AL hunting license?

Any theories?

Man you keep coming up with these questions with obvious answers ... :laughing:

 

[2ndhalf]

They were kicked out of the Bankhead hunting because they were ethicless morons!

 

[nickmags]

I think you missed the point. Illegal to be there! Does not matter if the person is an old idiot or a young idiot. ILLEGAL - you can "what if" till the cows come home, does not change the situation. Your saying because your Dad has bad feet it is okay for him to break the law? BULL SNOT. He can either walk out or the coyotes get supper. Good riddance.

Well I think you just missed my point. I'm saying if the old guy were on that quad, would you still shoot him for being there on a quad. Maybe a vet.. apparently doesn't matter to you?

If you shoot the quad of a guy that old that far into the wilderness you just killed him.

I don't mean any offense here I just picture my 75 year old dad who calls his quad his legs because he spent 40 years on a factory floor and his feet are shot. If he were even 5 miles in would probably not make it out without his quad.

 

[nickmags]

I had an experience with some "privileged" hunters a few years back. Heard a truck racing in low gear on my lower forty acres. Found my posted five strand fence cut next to my locked gate. Called the cops, got my 454 and riot shotgun and followed the tracks up the old logging road to where it again crossed my property, fence again cut. Only real drivable access to this section of state forest was though my property. Needless to say, I was hot! When I found them, they had parked their pickup and were setting up a tent camp. Three guys, middle aged, drunk and still drinking, all carrying firearms. To cut to the chase, the Sheriffs Deputy arrived, shortly followed by the State Game Warden. These guys were drunk and started running off at the mouth. They ended up spending the day and a night in the pokey. Their truck was towed to impound. Expensive trip, they spent the nite in jail, were fined, had to pay tow and impound fees, were banned from hunting for three years, and had to pay for a fencing crew to repair my fence. Turns out they were doctors from the city, been hunting this spot for years, and had no intention of obeying my legally posted property. "They had a right to hunt anywhere they wanted" one yelled as the Deputy locked the bracelets on him. Eight years later they have not been back. Too bad, I dug a big hole with a backhoe...

 

[beowulf]

Our 90 acres in the foothills backs up to national forest property. Just after we moved here 30 years ago a man, Johnny, came by and said he had always hunted wild pigs on our property and asked if it would be OK to do that once in a while. We talked it over, and gave permission for him to hunt if he always told us when he came on the property and when he left. Over the next year he called and came in three times (always during a rain it seems and over night) and got three large wild pigs. He would then call his cousins to help haul them out.

Then one Saturday a pick up load of guys (there were guys in the cab and guys in the bed) pulled up - all with guns - looked like a posse after a fugitive. I asked them what they wanted and they said "we're here for the pigs." I told them that was not going to happen. They said that Johnny told them they could hunt pigs here. No. They left and I called Johnny to tell him his pig hunting days on our property were over.

Since then we have let three other guys hunt the pigs - same rules - always call first. Some hunted with bows, some with guns. All were polite and never abused the privilege. I would even suggest places to hunt - where I had seen pigs or found runs. There were a few others we said no to - usually because we wanted to keep the number down to a very few who hunted very infrequently.

 

[FTG-05]

Man you keep coming up with these questions with obvious answers ... :laughing:

What's the obvious answer?

Keep in mind, I don't really know it either, but a friend brought it up a couple weeks ago and I think his theory is exactly right.

 

[LD1]

Most of the hunting around here is done on property lines. Lots of farm ground in my area, not so much wooded. Deer travel the fence rows, and along edges. Not uncommon to have 3 or 4 adjoining properties, with two sections being fields (separated by fence row), and the other two properties possibly being wooded. Corners like that are nice hunting. Deer will come out of the woods and walk the fence lines.

But fortunately around here. everybody knows everybody for the most part, and we all get along and respect others properties.

 

[Garandman]

Came up on a tree stand in one of my trees once....kind that uses the screw in steps like a telephone pole. Guy had removed the steps, I guess thinking his stand would be safe. I sawed the tree down, and took the stand.

About a week later, neighbor (who I'd already told don't hunt on me) calls up and asked if I found a tree stand. I asked him if he found a stump ! I'd have given 100 bucks to have seen his face....ahahah

That's awesome.

/thread.

 

[FTG-05]

Most of the hunting around here is done on property lines. Lots of farm ground in my area, not so much wooded. Deer travel the fence rows, and along edges. Not uncommon to have 3 or 4 adjoining properties, with two sections being fields (separated by fence row), and the other two properties possibly being wooded. Corners like that are nice hunting. Deer will come out of the woods and walk the fence lines.

But fortunately around here. everybody knows everybody for the most part, and we all get along and respect others properties.

Except for the TSHs, that's pretty much true here as well.

I have a neighbor who owns about 170 acres +/-; he's owned it since the early '80's. He has never let anyone hunt it (they are vegetarians, don't know if that anything to do with it). In that time, they've only let two people go onto their property to retrieve deer shot on other property, but then wandered onto theirs. I'm one of those two people.

We lost the deer, but I didn't care - we weren't going onto their property without permission. Found the deer the next day 10' away from the bank of his back 40 pond.